Re: [NSE] Dropbox LanSync host collection

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 06:30:49PM -0600, Mak Kolybabi wrote:
> Yesterday we had the first of (hopefully) many hackathons here in Winnipeg. We
> decided to write a bunch of Nmap scripts as our activity. Attached is the first
> of these scripts, submitted for (hopefully) inclusion into Nmap. More will
> follow.
>
> This script has a single problem that we could not resolve. If another process
> has bound a UDP socket to the broadcast address on the same port, the bind call
> will succeed, but will never receive packets. This will come up if Dropbox is
> running on the same host as Nmap.
>
> Comments, concerns, criticism, and testing are appreciated.

I've added your script. Thanks, guys. I moved it into the new
"discovery" category and also changed the name from "p2p" to
"broadcast". What do you think? Did you have a common pattern in mind
for scripts named p2p-*?

David Fifield
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